THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4774, 27 January 1887, Page 2

THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.

ACTION BY* GERMAN Y. DEMAND FROM FRANCE DENIED. London, Jan. 20. The statement published by the Daily News that Germany will shortly demand from France an explanation of the massing of troops on the frontier is officially denied both at Paris and Berlin. Berlin, Jan. 2G. The Government has issued a decree forbidding the export of horses from Germany. 3 The Spectator thinks it reasonable to suppose that the Bulgarians will now hold out, despite the pressing want of money which harrasses the Government every day ; and if they hold out, there is no reason now why they should not succeed, They will obtain a Prince in the end, and Russia can no better endure a long-pro-tracted strain, and doubt whether there will be war or not, than Austria can. The Empire and the Emperor have their own difficulties, and though finance does not embarrass Russian action as Western Europe believes it to do, still a tension prolonged for months throws all Russian commerce out of gear. The one quality required of the Bulgarians now is obstinacy — obstinacy as of mules ; and if that quality is not in them, then their character has been misread — not only by their European friends, who are as warm about them as they once were about Italy, but by their old Turkish masters, who, whenever they revolted, despaired of coercion, and killed the revolters out.